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Posted: Mar 28, 2016
An open access journal is the representation of a scholarly article available on web without technical, financial or legal limits except the ones which are inseparable from reaching internet access. There are open access journals which are financed by institutions, government information centers, online publishing groups or academic institutions etc. open access journals are of two types, fee based and non fee based. The ones which are fee based have the requirement of the payment on the behalf of the author. Most of the times, it is seen that the money comes from the author but sometimes, it can also come from the author’s research grant. journals which apply application fees take some steps in order to ensure that the editors which carry out peer review aren’t aware of whether the author has requested fee waivers or has been granted.
People who have any academic work or they want to be scholar in their field, there are many primary and secondary sources to obtain information and one of the important secondary sources of obtaining information are online open access journals which are available because of online publishing groups. There are many online publishing groups which work by publishing many scholarly articles in journals that are beneficial to people who have to do research work in a particular field. There are journals available under different names like for social sciences, medical sciences etc. Many people gain tremendous knowledge from the open access journals which are available freely on internet. With the advancement of technology, many online publishing groups have come up in present era. There is an editorial quality control on the internet in these international online journals.
Internet has primarily become the source of literature that is unimaginably can be present anywhere. Many researchers now use the online literature that is present on the web because many scholarly articles are present which are valid and they can be easily accessed anywhere and everywhere. Before starting any valuable projects in any discipline, one can search through the web material that is necessarily available. Online journals are present in any discipline under broad categories like academic disciplines including astronomy, business, psychology, history, law, commerce etc. These online open access journals today serve the academic societies and contribute to the development of these academic disciplines with its application areas. Development of any field means that there are many researches which have been done in different areas of that discipline which is very obvious.
There are many instances when researchers use these open access journals because this helps them in their research work. Knowledge is power. This power can be gained from various books, online publications, open access to journals and other informational sources. These resources are very important in terms of their writing quality and also an interest has been seen in people to see these informational sources. There are international open access journals as well which can help many research scholars to do the research.